Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727 [electronic resource] /
Gevirtz, K.author.
This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notions of the self -- An ingenious romance: the stable self -- The fly's eye: the composite self -- The detached observer -- The moral observer -- Conclusion.
This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.
Fiction.
History.
Philosophy.
Sociology.
European literature.
Modern philosophy.
Fiction.
History of Science.
History of Philosophy.
Gender Studies.
European Literature.
Modern Philosophy.